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Expeditie Egypte verhaalt de geschiedenis van twee eeuwen fascinerende archeologische ontdekkingen in het land van de farao's en de totstandkoming van de Egyptische collectie van het Museum Kunst & Geschiedenis in Brussel. In de negentiende eeuw leefde er in Belgische diplomatieke en industriële kringen een grote belangstelling voor het verleden van Egypte, dat toen een belangrijke plaats bekleedde in de internationale politiek en wereldeconomie. In de eerste decennia van de twintigste eeuw speelde de ambitieuze en flamboyante egyptoloog Jean Capart een onschatbare rol in de uitbreiding van de collectie en de ontwikkeling van het wetenschappelijke onderzoek. Dankzij Caparts talrijke initiatieven werd Brussel op een gegeven moment zelfs beschouwd als de wereldhoofdstad van de egyptologie. Na ongeveer tweehonderd jaar diepgaande interesse in het oude Egypte, beheert het Museum Kunst & Geschiedenis een uitzonderlijk rijke Egyptische verzameling die tot de top van de Europese musea wordt gerekend.Dit boek vergezelt de tentoonstelling Expeditie Egypte die meer dan tweehonderd objecten uit de beroemde Egyptische verzameling van het Museum Kunst & Geschiedenis samenbrengt. De blikvangers zijn de pas gerestaureerde, rijkelijk versierde sarcofagen uit de priesterlijke cachette van Deir el-Bahari en het prachtig geïllustreerde dodenboek van Neferrenpet. Voorwerpen zoals grafstèles, canopenvazen voor de ingewanden van de overledenen en shabti-beeldjes die de doden vergezelden in het hiernamaals, maken de bezoekers wegwijs in de Egyptische godenwereld en het eeuwige leven. Tenslotte wordt de tentoonstelling ook rijkelijk voorzien van uniek historisch fotomateriaal.(https://ludion.be/nl/books/detail/expeditie-egypte#:~:text=Expeditie%20Egypte%20verhaalt%20de%20geschiedenis,Museum%20Kunst%20%26%20Geschiedenis%20in%20Brussel.)

Exhibitions --- Art --- Archeology --- Egyptian [ancient] --- Egypt --- Capart, Jean --- Capart, Iohannes --- Egypte --- Oudheid --- Archeologie --- Kunst --- Kunstcollectie

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This paper examines the methodological potential regarding the reconstruction of the archaeological and historical context of isolated Egyptian artefacts in museum collections through the case study of the stela of May (E.05300) at the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels. This limestone stela has an upper register representing king Seti I and prince Ramesses in front of Osiris, Isis and Horus, and a lower register representing a worshiper called May, in front of who a hieroglyphic text containing an Osiris hymn is inscribed. The object has been part of the museum collection since its excavation by John Garstang at Abydos in 1909. This is the only provenance information that is available from the museum records. That does not mean that the stela has never been studied: its text has been translated numerous times, and its transmission history within its family of hymns has been analysed. Beyond this philological work, the object has not enjoyed much attention. My research has attempted to reconstruct its archaeological and historical context by approaching it from different angles. First, the physical materiality of the stela has been studied. Then, its archaeological context has been examined by means of the study of archival documents at the RMAH and at the Garstang Museum of Archaeology Archives at the University of Liverpool. This has revealed that the stela has been re-used in a secondary tomb context from the Ptolemaic period. It has become possible to tentatively reconstruct the tomb architecture and its location within the processional landscape of Abydos. However precious these insights, archival research has yielded no results regarding E.05300’s primary context. To obtain information about this original context, I turned to the object itself with its text and representations. On the textual level, an epigraphic drawing has permitted to conduct a palaeographic analysis that revealed the existence of unique hieroglyphs. Grammatical study of the verb vorms employed has led to insights regarding the cultic functioning of the hymn, with May impersonating the king during the temple ritual for Osiris. On the visual level, iconographic and compositional analysis has allowed to identify E.05300 as the commemorative stela of temple official May, who through the representational use of the king as an intermediary, retells his involvement in prestigious ritual activity. The object celebrates this important life event. Together, the combined insights of the textual and the visual analyses foreground May’s intention to commemorate his religious privilege, and demonstrate sophisticated interplay between text and image. They also raise the question of religious convictions and practices in the Ramesside period. This research demonstrates that Ramesside votive stelae, longtime considered witnesses of the movement of personal piety, may above all be understood as expressions of practical religion. Lastly, stylistic analysis has shown the stela’s indebtedness to both post-Amarna and early Ramesside artistic codes. In summary, this case study has yielded a wealth of contextual information about an isolated artefact. Whereas archival study has brought to light the secondary archaeological context of E.05300, textual and visual analysis have generated precious insights regarding its primary context. In this way, this modest exercise demonstrates the potential of a holistic methodological approach to the study of museum artefacts.